PakWheels, a famous automotive classified website in Pakistan has revealed that their server was breached by an unknown third party exposing personal data of registered users. In an email sent to users on 26th December, the site explained that hackers were able to conduct this breach by exploiting a known vulnerability in the outdated vBulletin forum software.

Although PakWheels didn’t reveal the number of affected users, we at HackRead have inside details on this breach according to which the number of targeted users impacted by this breach goes over 674,775 users including names, emails, encrypted passwords, mobile number, and Facebook sessions.

Email sent to users by PakWheels

The inside information came from data breach notification website LeakedSource who told HackRead that the data breach took place before October 2016, yet, it is unclear who was behind the breach and who provided LeakedSource with the data.

PakWheels was started back in 2003 to fill the missing space between automotive enthusiasts and the absence of a platform that discusses automotive industry related topics in the country. Since then, the website is being widely used for advertising, buying and selling of cars within Pakistan.

Currently, according to Alexa, the website is among the 67 most visited platforms in Pakistan.

This is not the first time when a high-profile website in Pakistan fell prey to hackers. In May 2016, Pakistan’s real estate giantZameen was hacked by a Bangladeshi hackerwho leaked its entire database after being ignored by Zameen’s administration.

If you are a PakWheel user change your password right now, also change your Facebook password in case you log in on the site with your Facebook account whilst website owners still using the outdated version of vBulletin, update your software right now.

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